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This is a list of articles about poetry in a single language or produced by a single nation.

World languages will tend to have a large body of poetry contributed to by several nations (Anglosphere, Francophonie, Latin America, German-speaking Europe), while for smaller languages, the body of poetry in a particular language will be identical to the national poetry of the nation or ethnicity associated with that language.

Contemporary

Asia

Near East

• Arabic poetry
• Azerbaijani literature
• Persian poetry
• Turkish poetry

South Asia

• Afghan poetry
  • Pashto literature and poetry
• Indian poetry
  • Bengali poetry
  • Bishnupriya Manipuri poetry
  • Gujarati poetry
  • Hindi poetry
  • Kannada poetry
  • Kashmiri poetry
  • Malayalam poetry
  • Marathi poetry
  • Nepali poetry
  • Rajasthani poetry
  • Sindhi poetry
  • Tamil poetry
  • Telugu poetry
  • Urdu poetry
  • Indian Poetry in English
• Pakistani poetry
  • Urdu poetry

East Asia

• Chinese poetry
• Japanese poetry

Southeast Asia

• Javanese poetry

Europe

• British poetry
  • English poetry
    • Old English poetry
  • Welsh poetry
    • Anglo-Welsh poetry
• Catalan poetry
• Finnish poetry
• French poetry
• German poetry
• Irish poetry
• Italian poetry
• Japanese poetry
• List of Polish language poets
• Portuguese poetry
• Russian poetry
• Serbian epic poetry
• Slovak poetry
• Spanish poetry

Americas

• Canadian poetry
• Latin American poetry
• United States poetry

Africa

• Malagasy poetry
• South African poetry
• Swahili poetry

Historical

Further information: Epic poetry and History of poetry

• Rhapsode
• Rishi
• Sanskrit poetry
• Indian epic poetry
• Bard
• Skald
• Germanic poetry
• Old Norse poetry
• Biblical poetry
• Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry
• Ghazal
• Latin poetry

See also

• Ethnopoetics